Thirty-one years
after The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger tries acting again.
Actually, it's more a
case of the writer and director realising that he can probably do a half decent
impression of acting if they minimise his dialogue and restrict anything that
would require too much facial movement.
A zombie outbreak,
poor crops and financial bollockery have left America (and presumably much of
the world) in a bit of a pickle. Especially the zombie bit. Schwarzenegger's daughter moved/ran away to the big city a while ago and managed to get bitten
by a shuffler. Arnold collects her so they can be together for whatever time
she has left before the infection turns her into one of the undead.
Abigail Breslin does
a fantastic job as the daughter. One part in particular, a brief campfire
romance with another infected teen is (given the unlikely plot surrounding it)
very touching and believable. A moment of tenderness and intimacy that lightens
the burden of their shared fate.
Mirroring kids with real-world terminal illnesses, it's a scene that I
found quietly heartbreaking. And all that gay stuff.
Actually, the whole
film is melancholic and slow moving, none the worse for it either. There's only
one scene that had anything resembling the action you'd expect in a zombie
film, and that's very brief.
Recomended.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1881002/
8.9/10
Perkin.
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